Correctional Service of Canada’s 2025 to 2026 Departmental plan: At a glance
A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans, and associated costs for the upcoming three fiscal years.
Key priorities
The Correctional Service of Canada’s (CSC)’s top priorities for 2025 to 2026 are as follows:
- Safe management of eligible offenders during their transition from the institution to the community, and while on supervision
- Safety and security of the public, victims, staff and offenders in institutions and in the community
- Effective, culturally appropriate interventions and reintegration support for First Nations, Métis and Inuit offenders
- Effective and timely interventions in addressing mental health needs of offenders
- Efficient and effective management practices that reflect values-based leadership in a changing environment
- Productive relationships with diverse partners, stakeholders, victims’ organizations, and others involved in support of public safety
Highlights
In 2025 to 2026, total planned spending (including internal services) for CSC is $3,791,180,406 and total planned full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) is 18,671.
For complete information on CSC’s total planned spending and human resources, read the Planned spending and human resources section of the full plan.
The following provides a summary of the department’s planned achievements for 2025 to 2026 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of a department’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.
Core responsibility 1: Care and Custody
Planned spending: $2,599,777,610
Planned human resources: 11,372
Departmental results
- Institutions are safe and secure
- Inmates are managed in a humane manner
CSC’s efforts are intended to contribute to reducing the rate of non-natural and undetermined deaths per 1,000 offenders, and reduce the rate of escapes from federal correctional institutions and Section 81 Healing Lodges per 1,000 offenders. Improvements to security measures intends to further reduce the rate of serious incidents per 1,000 offenders in federal custody.
To contribute to the overall result of managing inmates in a humane manner, CSC will seek to identify opportunities to improve services and supports for older persons in custody. In addition, CSC’s planned review and updating of its policies is intended to implement changes to dry cell procedures and reduce the rate of upheld inmate grievances per 1,000 offenders in federal custody.
More information about Care and Custody can be found in the full plan.
Core responsibility 2: Correctional Interventions
Planned spending: $568,932,873
Planned human resources: 4,590
Departmental results
- Offenders are prepared for their release from CSC’s jurisdiction as law-abiding citizens
CSC will endeavour to increase community engagement and supports through a variety of programs and initiatives to improve the rates of successful transitions to lower security and reduce the median percentage of sentence served prior to first release. In addition, CSC plans to continue implementing culturally informed programming for offenders to continue to improve correctional and educational program completion results. CSC will work to upgrade physical infrastructure and digital systems to improve offender management and community access with a goal of continuing to improve post-release reintegration.
More information about Correctional Interventions can be found in the full plan.
Core responsibility 3: Community Supervision
Planned spending: $229,996,873
Planned human resources: 238
Departmental results
- Offenders are law-abiding citizens while under community supervision
In addition to working with community partners to increase the percentage of offenders with a residency requirement who successfully transition out of residency, CSC will work with Community-Based Residential Facilities to secure proper accommodations for offenders, with the goal of improving the percentage of offenders on conditional release successfully reaching sentence expiry date without re-admission.
More information about Community Supervision can be found in the full plan.